Education
Third Annual Albemarle Green Building Fair and Expo


On March 4, 2010 College of The Albemarle and The UNC Coastal Studies Institute are hosting the third annual Albemarle Green Building Seminar and Expo.  This event will include a vendor expo exhibiting green technologies and products, focused seminars, and information about training opportunities for the emerging sustainable job market. 

The seminars this year will focus on alternative energies, energy efficiency and sustainable design.  There will also be seminars offered on marketing new sustainable technologies, a regional market panel discussion, and information on classes available through the College of The Albemarle that relate to the expanding sustainable job market. 
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Research 
UNC-CSI and partners explore sunken WWII Allied vessels

Between the dates of August 9 and August 22, 2009, UNC-CSI assisted NOAA's Office of Marine Sanctuaries, East Carolina University and the Minerals Management Service in an archaeological expedition on the remains of the HMT Bedfordshire, which sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII.
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Research
Ocean Warming and Consequences for Marine Life 

Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Coastal Studies Institute and DePauw University have completed a study that shows warmer ocean temperatures could mean dramatic shifts in the structure of underwater food webs and the abundance of marine life.  Michael F. Piehler, a Program Head in Estuarine Ecology and Human Health at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor at the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City is a co-author of the study.
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Research
Estuarine and Coastal Processes through Remote Sensing

The Estuarine and Coastal Processes program at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute uses remote sensing to analyze the dynamic waters of coastal North Carolina.  CSI acquires images from NASA's MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers) sensors aboard two satellites.  One satellite, Terra, passes over in the morning, and the Aqua satellite passes over in the afternoon.  The images recorded by these sensors are then processed to focus on important coastal processes, such as Total Suspended Matter concentration shown here.  With remote sensing we are examining large-scale estuarine and coastal processes to gain a better understanding of our complex coasts.